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Spanish

• Lisa Albrich (2014)
  • “El vestuario de Frida Kahlo“(Word)
    • Slide Show (PPT)
  • “Protest Art in the Tradition of Mexican Manuscripts” (Word)
  • “Guardando la Memoria” (PPT)

• Lisa Albrich and John McCluskey (2014)
  • “La Cocina Prehispánica”
    • “La Cocina Prehispánica Unit Description” (Albrich) (Word)
    • “Unit Description” from John McCluskey (who also teaches social studies) (Word)
    • Vocabulary List 1 (Word)
    • Vocabulary List 2 (Word)
    • Vocabulary List 3 (Word)
    • Vocabulary List 4 (Word)
    • “Codex Dialogue Activity” (Word)
    • “Diseñar una Taquería” (Word)
    • “Taste-Testing Activity: La Comida Prehispánica” (Word)
    • “Lotería:  La Comida Prehispánica”  (Word)
    • “Sorting Activity: La Comida Prehispánica” (Word)
    • “Palomo del Comalito” song lyrics by Lila Downs (Word)
    • “La tuza trajo el maíz” reading (PDF)
    • “El monte de nuestro alimento” reading (PDF)

• Benita Argüéllez (2015)
  • “Storytelling and Perspective: Art as a Form of Language”
    • Lesson Overview (Word)
    • Slide Show (PPT)

• Stephanie Baker (2010)
  • “Alebrijes in Spanish” (YouTube)
  • “Alebrijes in English” (YouTube)
  • Photostory Program downloads (for students wishing to make photostories such as this), for Windows, for Macs

• Phillip Callaway (2015)
  • “Francisco Toledo, ‘El Maestro’ — A Oaxacan Artist”
    • Lesson Overview (Word)
    • Slide Show (PPT)

• John Carolan (2011)
  • “La Cultura de Oaxaca” – Listening and Writing Lesson Plan
    • Lesson Plan Information (Word)
    • La Cultura de Oaxaca – Video (Youtube)

• Vincent Civarelli (2015)
  • Lesson Overview (Word)

• Lila Downs
  • “Cumbia del Mole” (song) (2009)

• Vanessa Ehler (2015)
  • “La Malinche” (PPT)

• Lynn Fernandez (2010)
  • Lesson 1 of 2, “Introduction to Mesoamerica”
    • Lesson Plan (Word, PDF)
    • Mesoamerica Notebook (PDF)
    • Map and Timeline (PDF)
    • Los jeroglíficos y códices (PPT, PDF)
    • ¿Qué hay de comer? (PPT, PDF)
    • El calendario mesoamericano (PDF)
    • Codex Selden pages with questions (PDF)

• • Lesson 2 of 2, “Juego de Pelota”
    • Lesson Plan (Word, PDF)
    • Juego de Pelota Notebook (PDF)
    • Juego de Pelota (PDF)
    • Los jeroglíficos y códices (PPT, PDF)
    • Juego Game Cards (PDF)
    • Codex Example (PDF)

• Maura Furfey (2015)
  • “The Language of the Codices / La Lengua de los Códices” (Word)
  • “Los Chinelos de Morelos” (Word)
  • Images (Word)
  • Video Glimpse of “Chinelos de Morelos” (MP4)

• Laura Hovey Ozuna and Lisa Sragovicz (2010)
  • ”Mi vida en México prehispánico”
    • Unit Plan (Word)
    • Brainstorming Worksheet (Word)
    • Internet Investigation (Word)
    • Proyectos estudiantiles (Word)
    • Images (ZIP)

• Mary Jackson (2015)
  • “Dear Student: You Have Been Selected for a Summer Institute in Oaxaca”
    • Lesson Overview (Word)
    • Dot to Dot Rabbit Glyph (PDF)
    • Dot to Dot Number Order (Word)
    • Forms of Communication (Word)
    • Stephanie Wood’s “Mesoamerican Pictorial Manuscripts Classification Exercise” (Word)
    • Modified Day Signs from Codex Magliabechiano (Word)
    • Stephanie Wood’s Animal Glyph PowerPoint (PPT)
    • Place Names in Idaho Worksheet (Word)
    • Codex Mendoza Place Name Line Drawing Activity (PDF)
    • Codex Mendoza Line Drawings, Folios 40r and 46r (Word)
    • Codex Mendoza Matching Place Names Activity (Word)
    • Tribute Page Assignment (Word)

• Kathleen Melville (2011)
  •  “Excavating and Weaving — Exploring Culture and Cultural Identity”
    • Unit Information (Word)
    • The American Cultural Tapestry (Word)
    • Exploring Culture and Cultural Identity (PPT)
    • Additional Lesson Plans – History & Culture, Birth Signs & Personality, Place Names, Symbolism, etc. (PPT)

• Lindsay Mitchell (2011)
  • “Los mitos y leyendas del mundo mesoamericano”
    • Unit Information (Word)
    • Mitos escritos (Word)
    • Short myth handout (Word)
    • Donají leyenda (Word)
    • Donají handout (Word)
    • Myths and Legends sorting activity for smartboard (Word)
    • Los mitos y leyendas del mundo mesoamericano (PPT)
    • Chatino interview – Video (WMV)

• Katherine Tomscha, a.k.a. Katherine Lupton (2015)
  • “En la Escuela”
    • Unidad 3, Notes 13, “Guerrero + Oaxaca Protests” Slideshow (PDF)
    • Unidad 3, Notas 14, “Tengan Puestos Los Ojos en Guerrero” (about the Ayotzinapa students who disappeared)
    • Rebellion in Oaxaca, Criterion A
    • Unidad 3, Notas 15, “Tengan Puestos Los Ojos en Oaxaca” (about the Teachers’ protests in Oaxaca)
  • “Storytelling in Mesoamerica: Art as a form of language”
    • Lesson Overview (Word)
    • “Unidad 5 Notas 1: Cuentos en Mesoamerica” (Word) and Slide Show (PPT)
    • “Unidad 5 Notas 2: Cuentos en Mesoamerica” (Word) and Slide Show (PPT)
    • “Unidad 5 Notas 3: Los Mitos de la Conquista” (Word) and “John Pohl’s MESOAMERICA: THE MEETING” (PDF)
    • “Unidad 5 Notas 4 Parte 1: Piedras, Arboles y Tela” (Word), “Unidad 5 Notas 4 Parte 2: Lienzos en Mesoamerica” (Word)
    • “Unidad 5 Notas 5: Popol Vuh: Conociendo los Mayas” (Word) and Slide Show (PPT)
    • “Unidad 5 Notas 6: Polpol Vuh: Al Principio” (Word)

• Elise Weisenbach (2010)
  • “Las Artes de Mexico: The Virgin of Guadalupe” (Word)
  • “The Mesoamerican Ballgame” (Best viewed with Mozilla Firefox)

 

Social Studies

• Ann Archer and Nitzan Ziv (2014)
  • “Mesoamerican Responses to Invasion and Colonization: Curricular Focus and Idea” (PPT)

• Casey Asato (2011)
  • “Indigenous Peoples: Library Quest Project”
    • Sub-Saharan Africa & Latin America: Indigenous Peoples Project (Word)
    • Library Quest (1st step to starting the project) (Word)

• Emily Ekstrand (2010)
  • Codex History Lesson
    • Lesson Plans (Word)
    • Codex Assignment (Word)
    • Mixtec Codex Elements (Word)
    • Student Work Sample (PDF)

• Kristian Fabian (2015)
  • “Indigenous Cultural Survival: Resistance, Adaptation, & Continuity” 
    • Lesson Overview (Word)
    • Slide Show (PPT)
    • “Cultural Remnants” (youtube)

• Ana Flores (2011)
  • Curricular Unit Proposal (Word)
  • “Sharing Your Stories” (PPT)
  • “Personal Values” (English-Spanish-Nahuatl) (Word)

• Clay Francis (2014)
  • “Mesoamerica AP Human Geography” (Word)

• Greg Gidden and Josh Fitzgerald (2011)
  • “Mesolore in the Classroom: Mixtec Propaganda”
    • Unit Information (Word)
    • Sources and Vocabulary (Word)
    • Exercises and Worksheets (Word)
    • Presentation (PPT)

• Maeve Hitzenbuhler (2014)
  • “The Color Red”
    • Unit Information (Word)
    • Readings (PDF)
    • Images (PDF)

• Howard Krug (2014)
  • Images (.jpg)
  • “The Cloud People, the Zapotecs of Monte Alban” (Word)
  • “Maya and Nahua Methods of Sacrifice” (Word)

• Alyson LeBlanc (2011)
  • “Deluge Myths” (Word)

• Memry Roessler (2010)
  • A proposal for “A Course on Museums” (Word)

• Carolina Rubio (2011)
  • Proposal for “Mesoamerican Ways of Knowing” (Word)

• Judy Schechter (2015)
  • “Linguistic Minorities and Access to Justice: Three Case Studies”
    • Lesson Overview (Word)
    • “Deaf Americans’ Linguistic and Cultural Access to Justice in the United States”  (PPT)
    • “Busted!” (PPT)
      • Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (these will download in .pptx format; we are still waiting for Part 3)
    • “Story of Santiago Ventura Morales” (PPT)
    • “Story of Jacinta Francisco Marcial” (PPT)
    • Unspeakable: The Story about Junius Wilson (YouTube)

• Todd Stillman (2014)
  • “Mesoamerican Ritual Served Five Ways” (Word)

• Irma Vega (2010)
  • “Health and Illness in Mesoamerica: Then & Now”
    • Lesson Plan (Word)
    • Lesson 1 Materials
      • Joie Davidow – “Magic and Medicine” (PDF)
      • Gist Summary (Word)
      • Guiding Questions (Word)
    • Lesson 2 Materials
      • An Aztec Herbal (PDF)
      • Vocabulary Companion to An Aztec Herbal (Word)
      • Excerpts from Groark (Word)
      • Tonalli, Midwife & Mother (PDF)
      • White Willow (PDF)
      • Zoapatle (PDF)
      • Susto Excerpt (Word)
      • Codex Mendoza Image (PPT)
      • Plants Handout (Word)
      • Answers to Plant Handout (Word)
      • Remedies Employed by Aztecs Table (Word)
      • Template for Entrance – Exit Slip (Word)
      • Author Says I Say (PDF)

• Kim Young (2010)
  • “Complicating Conquest”
    • GeoON (WMV)
    • Religion (WMV)
    • Politics (WMV)
    • Architecture (WMV)

• Nitzan Ziv (2014)
  • “Be a Myth Busting Archeologist!” (PDF)
  • “Experience of Conquest: Agency During the Spanish-Mesaomerican Encounter” (PDF)
  • “Decision Making in Mexico Today” (PDF)
  • “The Myths of Moctezuma’s Greeting of Corte: Understanding how historians analyze primary sources” (PDF)

 

English

• Shannon Anderson (2015)
  • “Legends and Myths from Mesoamerica and the Role they Play in the Culture and Identity of the People”
    • Lesson Overview(Word)

• Eddie Black (2015)
  • “Mesoamerica Unit for World Mythology”
    • Lesson Overview (Word)
    • Eddie Black Novel (Word)
    • “Chocolate Unit” (Word)
    • “Chocolate in Modern Times” (PPT)
    • “Chocolate in Mesoamerica” (PPT)

• Amanda Cuellar (2015)
  • Video glimpse of “¿Quién soy yo?  An Exploration of Literacy“
  • “¿Quién soy yo?/Who am I?”
    • Lesson Overview (Word)
    • “Oaxacan Black Mole Recipe” (Word)
    • “Literacy Narrative Writing Assignment” (Word)
    • “Literacy Narrative Grading Rubric” (Word )
    • “El Arbol de Amate” (Word)
    • “Questions for Codex Espangliensis” (Word)
    • “Codices and Cochineal” (PPT)
      • List of Nestle products that contain Cochineal dye (Word)

• Steve Ensdorf (2015)
  • “Reexamining the Spanish Arrival in Mexico through Primary Documents”
    • Lesson Overview (Word)
    • Video glimpse of “Analytical Writing: Re-Examining the Spanish Arrival in Mexico through Primary Docutments“

• Jessica Klonsky (2011)
  • “Pre-Colonial Mesoamerican Writing” (Latino and Latin American Literature)
    • Unit Information (Word)
    • Is This Writing? (PPT)
    • Pre-colonial Mesoamerican Writing Systems (PPT)

• Rachel Madris (2014)
  • “The Weeping Woman (La Llorona)” (Word)
    • Learning Plan (Word)
    • Unit Plan (PPT)

• Elvia Mandujano (2015)
  • “The History of Chocolate: From Legend to Exploitation and Cultural Appropriation from the Conquest to Present Day”
    • Lesson Overview (Word)
    • Slide Show (PPT)

• Anna Reed (2011)
  • “Alebrijes in Oaxaca”
    • “Alebrije presentation ideas” (Word)
    • “Alebrijes in Oaxaca” (Word)
    • “Alebrijes Folk Art” (PPT)

• Ami Relf (2015)
  • “Visual Literacy: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words”
    • Slide Show (PDF)
    • Visual Analysis Worksheet (Word)
    • Question Raiser Template (Word)

• Aisling Roche and Jessie Stovall (2015)
  • “Street Art in Oaxaca” (PDF)
  • Video glimpse of “Street Art in Oaxaca”
    • Part 1
    • Part 2

• Anastasia Visbal (2014)
  • “Art Show at Brooklyn TechHSO center 2014” (PDF)
  • “Art Show Engagement 1” (PDF)
  • “Art Show Engagement 2” (PDF)
  • “Art Show Teacher Curator” (PDF)
  • Gallery Walk Questions for Students (Word)
  • “NEH Mesoamerican Study in a High School Setting” Unit 1 (Word)
  • “NEH Mesoamerican Study in a High School Setting” Unit 2 (Word)

Art

• Patricia Bartels (2011)
  • Mesoamerican Mask Making 9 Day Unit
    • Unit Information (Word)
    • Lesson Plan (PPT)

• Nicole Caracciolo (2010)
  • Galleries
    • Architecture
    • Market
    • People
    • Plants

• Nicole Caracciolo and Angela Guy (2010)
  • Lesson 1: “Stone, Tree Bark, & Cloth: Visual Communication in Ancient Mesoamerica”
    • “Stone, Tree Bark, & Cloth” (PPT)
    • Codex Art Project by Pearl Lau (link)
    • Popol Vuh codex project by teacher Mike Reed’s students (link)
  • Lesson 2: “Print as Protest”
    • “Print as Protest” (PDF)
    • “Print as Protest” (PPT)
  • Lesson 3: “Oaxacan Street Art: Modern Visual Communication”
    • “Oaxacan Street Art” (PPT)
    • “Street Art” (PDF)

• Deborah Genovese (2010)
  • “Paper Making“

• Kathy Kowalczyk and Dean Stadel (2011)
  • “Visual Arts in Clay and Ceramics: With an Emphasis on Animal Motifs and Functional Animal Forms”
    • Visual Arts Unit Information (Word)
    • Precolumbian Animal Forms (PPT)
    • Frieze Design Introduction – Mitla (PPT)
    • San Marcos, Tlapazola – Hand Built Pottery Process (PPT)
    • Whistle Making Sequence (PPT)
    • Oaxaca Art Forms – Video (WMV)

• Deborah Strother and Christy Gill (2010)
  • “Stories in Clay: Oaxacan Ceramic Folk Art”
    • Lesson Plan (Word)
    • Lesson Plan – EdSite Format (Word)
    • Stories in Clay (PPTX, M4V)
    • Videos of Oaxacan Ceramic Artist at Work: 1, 2 (AVI)
    • Video of Pasatono, Oaxacan Musicians (AVI)
    • Interview on Folk Legends (MP3)

• Jessica Voigt (2011)
  • “Oaxacan Wood Carving”
    • Unit Information (Word)
    • Why Make Art? (PPT)
    • Mesoamerican Astrology (MOV)
    • Envisioning the Nahual (MOV)

 

STEM

• Michael Pena (2014)
  • “Iceman Evidence” (Word)
  • “NEH Curricular Project: Nature and the Development of Culture” (Word)
  • “NEH Curricular Project Links and Resources” (Word)
  • “NEH Ethnobiology option A” (PPT)
  • “NEH Ethnobiology option B” (PPT)
  • “Research Project: Culture and the Living World” (PPT)

• Stephanie Tietz (2010)
  • “Incorporating Mesoamerican Content Into the Biology Curriculum”
    • Lesson Plans (Word)
    • “Artificial Selection: The Journey from Teosinte to Maize” (PPT)
    • “Cochineal: The Red Gold of the Mixtec” (PPT)

• Nancy Tran Le (2011)
  • “Cochineal Dye Chemistry”
    • Unit Information (Word)
    • Video Demonstration (M4V)
    • List of Nestle products that contain Cochineal dye

 

Drama

• (forthcoming)